First up was a press-conference during which about 8 of us talked about our impressions of the changes in the state of Korean literature in translation. We had folks from Poland, France, Spain, Germany, Canada, and the US (me!). The press seemed interested, but my poor Korean no doubt made me slightly less quotable. The…
More information on the 3rd Seoul Young Writers Festival, which will be held at the House of Literature in Seoul, and in the Jeonju Hanock Village in Jeonju.
Korean to English and Back: Translational asymmetries, from Chick Lit, through the Bible, to marketing.
Graduate students and post-docs are invited to submit proposals for the graduate forum portion of the Korean Studies Summer Workshop 2010, to be held at the University of California Irvine, June 25-26, 2010
The Korean Literature Translation Institute is sponsoring, in May, a Young Writers Festival in Seoul, Featuring, Kim Ae-ran, Park Hyung-seo, Pyun Hye-young, Junot Diaz, Leena Krohn, and Audrey Kurkov.
An interesting conference to be held this August in Seoul. Unfortunately, the deadline for paper submission is passed, but some of the topics on the agenda look pretty good. Held triennially (what?why?) it is described as: The Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association (ICLA) is the Olympics of literature. Held triennially, this monumental event…